It may not affect you now, and it’s something that we hear all too often, but you will thank yourself when you’re older. You can keep your mind sharp by playing football, as study’s have shown that regular exercise such as walking football could be the way to go for preventing dementia.
Walking football is targeted for people over 50-years-olds and they are most at risk of dementia. The NHS says, the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia increases with age, affecting an estimated 1 in 14 people over the age of 65.
So, why not get your older family involved in walking football?
Alzheimer’s Society says that ‘regular exercise can help reduce the risk by around 28% and the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease is reduced by 45%’.
We’ve spoken to Dr Jonathan Cooper-Knock, who is a consultant neurologist and geneticist at the University of Sheffield.
How does exercise help before someone is diagnosed with dementia?
Dr Cooper-Knock talks about a study of 200 patients, all with frontotemporal dementia in California, and how they found exercise effective.
Would you recommend exercise to your patients?
How effective is exercise and walking football?
Jonathan Cooper-Knock is a consultant neurologist
and geneticist at the University of Sheffield, beginning his
studies of medicine at the University of Oxford. He has
been awarded the European Network for Cure of
ALS and a NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship
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